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2015 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE (188-215)
Chapter 214 Cemeteries
PUBLIC CEMETERIES
- Section 214.010 Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries--authority to regulate--penalties.
- Section 214.020 City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund--receive gifts--limitation on use of income from fund.
- Section 214.030 Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.
- Section 214.035 Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when--notice of transfer.
- Section 214.040 Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where--requirements.
- Section 214.041 Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery--exceptions.
- Section 214.050 Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.
- Section 214.060 Petition to be presented to county commission--remonstrance may be filed.
- Section 214.070 Terms defined.
- Section 214.080 Proceedings to enlarge.
- Section 214.090 Family burying grounds, how secured.
- Section 214.120 Costs, who liable for.
- Section 214.130 County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.
- Section 214.131 Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty--abandoned or private burying ground, defined.
- Section 214.132 Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff--court's power to disinter.
- Section 214.140 Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries.
- Section 214.150 County commissions shall become trustees and custodians.
- Section 214.160 Shall invest or loan trust funds.
- Section 214.170 May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income.
- Section 214.180 Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements.
- Section 214.190 Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition--exception.
- Section 214.200 Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes.
- Section 214.205 Violation of nuisance ordinance--abandonment--action authorized--costs--eminent domain.
- Section 214.208 Disinterment authorized, when--consent required, when--cemetery owner not liable, when.
- Section 214.209 Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery.
- Section 214.210 Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands.
- Section 214.220 Lands or shares subject to all vested rights.
- Section 214.230 City may acquire money or funds, how.
- Section 214.240 City may provide and enforce rules and regulations.
- Section 214.250 Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties--petition by taxpayers.
- Section 214.260 Penalty for violation.
- Section 214.270 Definitions.
- Section 214.275 License, cemeteries--division's powers and duties--limitations.
- Section 214.276 Refusal to issue license--notice--hearing.
- Section 214.277 Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available--venue.
- Section 214.280 Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form--fee--deposit of fee--division's powers and duties--rules authorized.
- Section 214.282 Voidability of contracts, exceptions.
- Section 214.283 Notification of burial lands--registry of cemeteries to be kept by division--fee may be charged for copies--surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form.
- Section 214.300 Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when--minimum care and maintenance fund to be established.
- Section 214.310 Endowed care and maintenance fund, minimum amount--bond--posting of sign, when, information required.
- Section 214.320 Deposits in fund required, amount--annual report, form furnished by division--audits may be conducted, when--exemption from chapter 436 requirements, when.
- Section 214.325 Required deposits--deficiency--effect--penalty.
- Section 214.330 Endowed care fund held in trust or segregated account--requirements--duties of trustee or independent investment advisor--operator's duties--endowed care fund agreement.
- Section 214.335 Contributions to endowed care fund for memorial or monument--deficiency, effect of.
- Section 214.340 Report required--content--oath--filing required.
- Section 214.345 Sale of cemetery plot--written statement to be given to purchaser--copy of annual report to be available to public.
- Section 214.360 Private use of trust funds prohibited.
- Section 214.363 Bankruptcy, assignment for benefit of creditors, endowed care fund exempt.
- Section 214.365 Cemetery failing to provide maintenance--abandonment or ceasing to operate, division's duties.
- Section 214.367 Sale of assets, notice required--prospective purchaser of endowed care cemetery, right to recent audit--right to continue operation, notification by division.
- Section 214.370 Nonendowed cemetery to post signs and give notice of its character.
- Section 214.380 Nonendowed section of endowed care cemetery--signs and notice.
- Section 214.385 Moving of grave marker, replacement--delivery of item of burial merchandise.
- Section 214.387 Burial merchandise or services, deferral of delivery, when--escrow arrangement--distribution of moneys--cancellation.
- Section 214.389 Suspension of distribution, when, procedure.
- Section 214.390 Existing cemeteries to operate under law--local law applicable.
- Section 214.392 Division of professional registration, duties and powers in regulation of cemeteries--rulemaking authority.
- Section 214.400 Citation of law.
- Section 214.410 Beginning January 1, 2017--Violation of law, penalty.
- Section 214.410 Until December 31, 2016--Violation of law, penalty.
- Section 214.450 Indian cemeteries, how established--trust fund authorized.
- Section 214.455 Destruction or defacing any cemetery property, penalty.
- Section 214.500 Cemeteries acquired by a city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.
- Section 214.504 No liability for new cemetery operators, when--rights of holders of contracts for burial.
- Section 214.508 Previous cemetery owner liable, when.
- Section 214.512 New cemetery owner not liable for deficiencies, exception.
- Section 214.516 Registration as an endowed care cemetery, when--compliance with endowed care cemetery law required.
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